Emma Sutherland is an abstract painter living and working on Gadigal land in NSW, Australia

Her work explores the immaterial and expanding energy of the natural world, particularly the landscape. Her work is anchored in the sensory expression of this energy – how we experience places, seasons, climates in our body and senses.  

She paints things she cannot see but can feel viscerally – the texture and hum of the living world are registered in colours, mark-making, shapes and ethereal layers of polymer on her canvases. Paintings that are continuously made and unmade. Stripped back and painted over in translucent layers, like the internal mind revisiting the land, looking for memory and feeling.

With a formal education in design, Emma’s artistic practice has evolved from years of personal study into a dedicated pursuit.

She continues to refine her techniques through painting expeditions, art workshops, and masterclasses, constantly pushing the boundaries of her practice.